Method of making shoes.



M. BROOK.

METHOD OF MAKING SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.24, 191s.

Patente i June 24, 1913.

Pym/[555$ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTI-IIAS BROCK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METHOD OF MAKING-SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 24, 1913.

Original application filed December 13, 1910, Serial No. 597,055. Divided and this application filed February 24, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MATTHIAS BROOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Methods of Making Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to methods of making shoes and consists in certain improvements by which the mounting of uppers and previously connected soles or insoles upon the shoe lasts is facilitated.

The invention is shown in connection with the manufacture of stitch-down shoes by a well-known system in which the upper and the sole or insole are permanently connected off the last and the last is then inserted to distend and shape the shoe. The invention is also applicable to the remounting of turn or other shoes upon lasts in the systems of making shoes in which that operation is per formed. This is labor requiring much strength and a considerable amount of skill to obtain the best results and avoid tearing or permanently distorting the stock or overstraining seams.

In accordance with this invention, after a last has been partially inserted into the toe portion of a shoe as far as it will readily go, the shoe is engaged in the crease between the upper and the projecting edge of the sole, herein called the welt crease, at the toe and relative movement is effected by which pressure is applied lengthwise of the shoe in the direction to complete the mounting of the forepart of the shoe on the last. Advantageously the forepart of the sole face may also be engaged and rearwardly directed pressure applied thereto to assist in forcing the shoe onto the last. If the rearwardly directed movement of the sole is made before or is greater than the movement of the stock in and about the welt crease the sole can thus be made to draw the attached upper upwardly over the toe of the last held in inverted position for correctly positioning the welt crease at the toe relatively to the plane of the last bottom. Advantageously also the heel end of the shoe may be pulled rearwa-rdly and downwardly Serial No. 750,279.

over theheel end of the last while the backward pressure on the forepart of the shoe is being applied.

The invention will now be further explained in connection with the accompanying drawings and will then be pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 shows a shoe upper and attached sole with a last entered into the toe portion thereof. Fig. 2 shows said shoe engaged in the Welt crease around the toe and also engaged upon the forepart of the sole face and the upper is being drawn up around the toe end of the last by rearwardly directed pressure applied to the sole face. Fig. 3 shows the shoe being moved rearwardly on the last by continued backwardly directed pressure applied to the sole face simultaneously with rearward pressure applied in the welt crease and also the welt crease being shaped by the pressure applied therein. This figure also shows the heel portion of the shoe being1 drawn down over 7 the heel end of the last w ile the pressure on the forepart of the shoe is being applied, or is maintained. Fig. 4 shows the shoe at the end of this operation.

The practice of the invention will be eX- plained with the aid of the apparatus herein shown, which is the novel apparatus claimed in a co-pending application Ser. No. 597,055, filed Dec. 13, 1910, for a machine for mounting shoes, and from which application this present application is a division. It will be understood, however, that this present in vention is not dependent upon the use of the illustrated mechanism or of any particular form of mechanism.

The shoe is received with the upper 1 and the sole 2 connected, usually by a seam of stitches, as in Fig. 1 and the fore-part is applied to its last v5, as there shown, to such an extent as can readily and quickly be done. The shoe, with the last suitably supported, is then engaged in the welt crease 4, as by the plates 5, and preferably also upon the sole face of its forepart, as by the toothed presser 6 in Fig. 2, and pressure toward the heel is applied at these points. The rearward pressure or movement applied through the sole may well exceed or precede that applied through the welt crease and in that event it will result in drawing up the toe portion of the shoe toward the plane of the last bottom as it is usually desirable to do in order to locate the shoe stock correctly at the toe of the last. Continued rearward pressure through the sole and the welt crease will force the forepart of the upper upon the forepart of'the last as in Fig. 4. The described application of pressure may be followed, but preferably will be accompanied, by a movement of the rear portion of the shoe downwardly, and it may also advantageously be rearwardly, over the heel por tion of the last. This may be effected by engaging the rear part of the shoe, as for example between the rear end of the last and the inside face of the shoe, by a blade or a spoon shaped device '7 and drawing the shoe stock downwardly by movement of said device. Obviously the workman may use his hands instead of the devices 5, 6, 7 to apply force as described which will move the shoe parts relatively to the last as indicated by the arrows on the drawings to force first the forepart and then the heel part of the shoe upon its last and in so doing to stretch or distend the shoe stock to the shape of the last. The application of pressure as described through. the plates 5, which preferably embrace the tee from one side around the end to the other side of the toe, shapes or reshapes the welt crease around the toe as an incident to the mounting of the shoe on the last. Advantageously the sole face of the shoe may be engaged at or near the toe end of the sole and also over the ball. of the last and the rearward pressure applied at these two points as shown.

Having explained the nature of this in vention and described how itmay be practised, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. That im 'n'ovement in methods of making shoes which consists in entering a last into the toe portion of a shoe the upper of which has previously been connected with the sole, engaging the shoe in the welt crease at the toe and also engaging it on the sole face of its forepart, and applying pressure lengthwise of the shoe in the direction to complete the mounting of the forepart of the shoe on the last.

2. That improvement in methods of making shoes which consists in entering a last into the toe portion of a shoe, engaging the shoe in the welt crease around the toe and also engaging it at the toe end of its sole face and also over the ball and, while sustaining the last, effecting rearward pressure upon the shoe simultaneously in said crease and on the sole face until the toe of the shoe is mounted on the toe of the last and the crease is shaped.

8. That improvement in methods of making shoes which consists in entering a last into the toe portion of a shoe the upper of which has previously been connected with the sole, engaging the shoe in the welt crease at the toe, and applying pressure lengthwise of the shoe in the direction to complete the mounting of the forepart of the shoe on the last.

4;. That improvement in methods of making shoes which consists in entering a last into the toe portion of a shoe, engaging the shoe in the w-elt crease at the toe and also engaging it on the sole face of the forepart, moving the sole backwardly to draw the attached upper upwardly over the toe of the inverted last, and applying relative pressure to the last on one hand and both to the crease and the solo on the other hand in a direction lengthwise of the shoe to force the toe portion of the shoe and the last together.

That improvement in methods of male ing shoes which consists in entering a last into the toe portion of a shoe, engaging the shoe in the welt crease at the toe and also engaging it on the sole face of the forepart, and applying pressure lengthwise of the shoe in the direction to complete the mounting of the forepart of the shoe on the last and, while such pressure is being exerted, pulling rearwardly and downwardly on the heel end of the shoe relatively to the inverted last.

6. That improvement in methods of making shoes which consists in entering a last into the toe portion of a shoe the upper of which has previously been connected with the sole, engaging the shoe in the welt crease at the toe and also engaging it on the sole face of the forepart, drawing the toe end of the upper up over the toe end of the inverted last, then drawing the toe of the shoe backwardly about the toe of the last by pressure applied in the welt crease and backward draft on the sole face.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MATTHIAS BROCK.

lVitnesses:

MARTHA \V. COUPE, JENNTE P. ANnn'nsoN.

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